Catamenial sack and womb support



1927 I r w; s. PELOIIJBYET'4 CATAMENIAL SACK AND WOMB SUPPORT Filed Feb.1.6, 1925 W #w kATroRNEY Patented .luly 5, 1927.

UNITED ST TES PATENT OFFICE. v

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Application fled February which shall be readily handled, simple inconstruction and such as may without injury.

Other and ancillary objects of the invention will appear hereinafter. vI

In the accompanying drawings, which i1-' lustrate the invention,

Fig. 1 is an axial section of a device embodying the invention,

. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same, Fig. 3 is a side elevation,partly broken be made use of away to show a section, of a modified form1 'these sections puckering to form a pleat of the device, v I

Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the device shown in Fig. 3, showing the cuppartially ex anded, and

,ig. 5 is a similar view of the cup of Figs. 3 and 4 showing the cup incontracted position. v

Referring to the drawings, and first to Figs. 1 and 2, the articlethereinshown is formed of molded rubber of suitable flexi-' bility,elasticity and stabilit and comprises a cup 1 in communication, ymeansof an opening 2 with a disk-shaped pocket or re. ceptacle 3 havingsubstantially flat sides and extending laterally to a considerabledistance outside the extreme lateral edges of the cup.

' Tothe other flat side oithe receptacle is secured a similar cup 4. 1

' The two cups and pocket are in axial alignment.

The device is to be inserted in the vaginal passage with the disk-likepocket transverse thereto. The cup 1 receives the end of the womb sothat the menstrual discharge is directed into the ocket 3. The flatpocket, extending a consi erable distance outside the cups, engages withthe walls of the vaginal passage in a substantially fluid tight mannerso'that the cup 1. is centered and any excretion which may be outsidethe cup is caught.

18, 1925. Serial 11:0. 8,398.

The centering of the cup adjusts into proper position the end oftheuterus if it has become dis laced to one side, and a support for the womis formed which is especially efiicacious in cases of falling of thewomb. This support may be afforded by engagemefit of the. disk pocketwith the vaginal wa s. support and also, with or without such support,prevents displacement of the device byv relation to the vaginal walls.

To render either or both of the cups more flexible, so as to be expandedand contracted to adjust the device to the parts as required by thecircumstances of the individual case, with greater ease, there may beformed in the cup radial sections 5 of less thickness thanthe remainderof the wall of the cup,

undue tilting of the disk and cup 1, with when the cup is in contractedcondition (see Figs. 3 and 5), and this. pleat spreading on enlargementor expansion of the mouth of the cup (see Fig. 4).

Wh1le the invention has been illustrated in what-are considered its bestapplications, it may have other embodiments without departin from itsspirit and is not therefore limite to the structures shown in thedrawings.

What I claim is:

1. A device of the character described having two cups, and a disk-likepocket in axial alignment, one of said cups being in communication withthe interior of said pocket and'the other being shut off .from

communication therewith.

the other cup being shut off from such com-' munication, said pocketextending laterally beyond the extreme lateral edges of said cu s. I i

fn testimony whereof I have signed this specification this 14th day of'Febrliijig 1925. WILLIAM S. PELO ET.

The cup 4 provides additional pelvic

